Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-07-31
LOCAL AND oruEm sors.
scraps from she Notebook OF she
SenatnePs Reporter.

Enterprise. AuscuIOra IL BettlnB nef
second wind.
Sweet potatoes retail ct four cents
pound on the Comstock.
Mrs. Lsngtry has bought 0 2O.acre lot
in Ogden. She paid S., 900.
Hon. Thomas Wren returned from
Mount Hope yesterday evening.
1t is feared that many persons have per.
ished in the forest fires in Oregon.
The usual religious services will be held
in the Catholic and Episcopal Churches
to-day.
There will be a practice game OF base
ball OF tho old grounds OF / O'Clock this
afternoon.
Msnuela Velasco, q Mexican girl living
near Nogales. A.. T., was accidentally shot
and killed July 25.
Sacramento has received 500, 900 from
Washington with which to buy q site for a
Government building.
j. R. Wilmington, the cattleman, ar
rived here yesterday from Wells on the
Central Pacific railroad.
A man named VIM. Surlott, fell so feet
down q shaft at Silver City Monday and
received fatal injuries.
Richard Bergman, his son james and
John Bergman Jr., Of Secret Canyon,
came into tow yesterday.
On Monday at San Jose John Carroll
was arrested on a charge of q felonious as
sanlt on Mrs. Tucker, a doctress
A Spring street woman tried to climb up
q steep roof to catch q hen, but lost her
grip and fell into g water barrel.
Wm. Fries, the President of the Eu-
reks Con. Mining Company, arrived here
yesterday, from San Francisco.
So far this season no coachman has
eloped with his employers daughter, but
one has been struck by lightning.
Jim Middaugh has returned to Reno
after having assisted in running the line
between Lander and Eureka counties.
Bishop Whitaker will preach this morn
ing and evening in the Episcopal
Church. Confirmation ervices In the
evening.
The members OF Upton Post No. 20, G..
A. R.. are requested to attend a special
meeting at their hall this evening at $50
O'Clock P. NJ.
English as she Ia spoke: "Where do
you take your vacation this year 2" 81
intend to take IL with me when / go into
the country"
II you aye troubled with weak eyes
never sift ashes while facing the wind.
Get your wife to do il, or wait till the
wind shifts to another quarter.
"What did Adam and Eve wear before
they put on aprons?" asked the teacher.
And after q moments silence the new boy
from Hardscre Crosslots said: "Nothin'
but bathin' SUITS"
Louise Perkins has compromised the
sni, with Z. J. Baldwin and left her law.
yers in the lurch. She received 81 900 in
coin and o deed TO property in Los An
geles county valued at SIS, 900.
An Eastern bard has q poem entitled
The Lost Kiss" which prompts rs to
remark that some way ought to be found
to keep q i girls small brother out Of tine
room.
Hon. John E.. Jones, State Surveyor
General. arrived from Carson last even.
ing, and was welcomed by Q host OF
friends. He will return to Carson again,
leaving here on Monday morning.
Mise Mary Darrah, neice of Mrs. NJ.
Dougherty. of Secret Canyon, arrived here
yesterday. She has come to pay o long
promised visit TO her amt. who will be
very delighted TO meet and tain her.
Mrs. Mathews and Miss Annie Ellis
took out a $500 county license yesterday.
This is the third high license that has
been paid into the County Treasury since
the law requiring its payment went into
effect.
A Yankee has just received an invention
to play pianos. This will fill q long-felt
want. When two young people Of the OPP
posite sex are In the parlor in the evening
the old lady don't begin to aunter in un-
I'll the piano stops.
Up to the present date there have been
issued from the Eureka Postofice. in
round numbers, about so, 900 each of
postal orders and notes, having an aver
age OF $40, or an aggregate Of about a
million dollars. y
An Indiana dairymsn covers the COW
with q horse blanket or sheet while milk
ing, thus preventing the annoyance of
flies, and adding greatly to the comfort OF
the COW, which is otherwise continuously
engaged in battle with the insect world
II q horse blanket 10 used it should be
clean one.
The cost OF sinking a~rtesian wells in
Carson valley is So per foot for the first
100 feet, So per foot for the second Zoe
feet. and 81 extra for each succeeding
100 feet. AT these rates it costs Sc. SOC
to sink 1000 feet. SIS. 900 &c sink 1900
feet, and $3.50 to sink 1000 feet
These figures do not include the cost o.
the plant.
The Carlin Murder.
Evidence Is now coming TO light tina